Ezekiel 19:2

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What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:11 : 11 The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.
  • Ps 58:6 : 6 O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.
  • Isa 5:29 : 29 The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.
  • Isa 11:6-9 : 6 And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide. 7 And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together. 8 And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake. 9 There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.
  • Nah 2:11-12 : 11 Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces. 12 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
  • Zeph 3:1-4 : 1 Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town! 2 She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God. 3 Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning. 4 Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.
  • Zech 11:3 : 3 The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.

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  • Ezek 19:3-7
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    3And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

    4And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.

    5Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.

    6And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

    7And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.

  • Nah 2:11-13
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    79%

    11Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

    12Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

    13Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.

  • Ezek 19:1
    77%

    1Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,

  • Gen 49:9
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    9Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?

  • Job 39:29-30
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    75%

    29Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

    30Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

  • Job 4:10-11
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    10Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

    11The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    73%

    7So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;

    8I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.

  • Ps 17:12
    73%

    12Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

  • Ezek 19:10
    73%

    10Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.

  • Job 39:16
    73%

    16Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,

  • Isa 5:29
    73%

    29The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

  • Num 23:24
    72%

    24See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

  • Ps 22:13
    72%

    13I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

  • Jer 2:15
    71%

    15The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

  • Jer 50:12
    71%

    12Your mother will be put to shame; she who gave you birth will be looked down on: see, she will be the last of the nations, a waste place, a dry and unwatered land.

  • Zeph 3:3
    70%

    3Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

  • Isa 11:7
    70%

    7And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together.

  • Jer 51:38
    70%

    38They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.

  • Judg 14:5
    70%

    5Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.

  • Hos 2:2-3
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    70%

    2Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

    3For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

  • Joel 1:6
    70%

    6For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.

  • Deut 28:57
    70%

    57And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

  • Ezek 16:44-45
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    70%

    44See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.

    45You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

  • Lam 4:3
    70%

    3Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.

  • Hos 5:14
    69%

    14For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.

  • Hos 2:5
    69%

    5For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.

  • Ps 104:21
    69%

    21The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

  • Jer 5:6
    69%

    6And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

  • Amos 3:4
    69%

    4Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

  • Job 28:8
    69%

    8The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

  • Jer 49:19
    69%

    19See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?

  • Jer 2:30
    69%

    30I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25
    69%

    25Now when first they were living there they did not give worship to the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, causing the death of some of them.

  • Prov 30:30
    69%

    30The lion, which is strongest among beasts, not turning from his way for any;

  • Lam 3:10
    68%

    10He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.